Software acquisition management experience learnt in a multi discipline and multi contract project environment

Abstract

This paper summarizes software acquisition management lessons learnt from a complex multidisciplinary and multi-contract environment. It also identifies a number of new measures for improvement in a current project. These new measures are then analyzed against the key process areas of the Software Acquisition Capability Maturity Model/sup (R)/ (SA-CMM/sup (R)/) for their applicability and comprehensiveness. Additional effort to fulfil level-2 requirements of the SA-CMM/sup (R)/ is also investigated.